Fair enough.
What ending do you think would've been more inline with what we were presented?
Fred.
I liked the setting of the compound, though I would've loved them to see even more of the horrific details of it. More revelations within the caves of Carcosa. I was kicking it with Mel about it, and we talked about McNulty mourning Stringer's death - not because he cared, but because String would never know McNulty had caught him on the wiretap. I think that sort of thing could've played well here: Rust gets his guy, but doesn't get to see the cuffs go on, dies in the process.
I don't think Rust needed redeeming via near-death epiphany. The work was his redemption. Keeping the bad guys at the gate or whatever he said was his redemption. Marty at his bed when he wakes up in the hospital? Gay as fukk, b. Those two could've demonstrated their care for each other in more understated, though still powerful ways.
Mostly I hate the seemingly fatal wound, last second gunshot as the villain hovers over the partner, ohmygodohmygod is he dead sequence. The writing was consistently above that sort of thing. The one time the writing veered into typical movie trash was when True Detective briefly morphed into Sons of Anarchy and Training Day in episode 4. The entire time from the biker bar to the perfectly timed escape from the projects was utter bullshyt. However, it was bullshyt that served a purpose - change up the tempo, reward the audience's patience with some action (the dumb being intrigued by the drum and shyt, including myself), have some fukking fun with the show. Cool. I can suspend disbelief for that and enjoy it. The next time I felt like I was watching a different kind of show was the finale, which had a Magnum P.I. meets soap opera vibe to it at parts. And at that point there didn't seem to be a purpose served by the change in pace and feel, unless it was that the writer and the audience were so attached to Rust that sentimentality won out and he got sent off with a somewhat neat end.
All that other shyt, like whether Maggie's dad was down with the cult... I don't care about that. Thing is, the show's ending still leaves that open ended, and that's cool, that's life.
let's try the optimism thing for a while. His mind state up to that point wasn't exactly working out for him, anyway.
just like I was in Ep 4 at the trap house so I still thoroughly enjoyed the episodes regardless
